A weekend jaunt to Scotland.

On Saturday I packed the panniers and rode to Leeds to meet my friends before heading onward to Carlisle to pick up a couple more before the last leg to Portpatrick, not many stops or pictures because we just wanted to crunch the miles and get there, the weather was fantastic but I swear the temperature dropped 5° when we crossed the boarder, the hotel my friends had chosen was very nice, at £95 for a room it's a good job After a nice meal a couple of us braved the wind for a walk around the harbour.

Yesterday was Portpatrick to Grasmere via Drumlanrig castle, Moffat and the filling station cafe, it was raining for most of the day so when I saw this on the wall at the Filling Station I had to get a pic.

There was a rally car meet at the castle and the weather cleared for a bit so I got a couple of snaps there.

Not many people seemed to care about the Porsche next to the MK1 escort

Today we rode home from Grasmere after a walk around the village, the weather was dry but 'refreshing' with the GT's dash reading 6°c by the time we set off, we stuck to the back roads to Kirkby Stephen, Hawes and stopped off at the monor cafe near Leyburn on the way back for a fishfinger sandwich, then down to Ripon and on to the A1, 640 miles in 3 days and the bike was flawless and used about the same fuel as my friends V-strom, at least 10mpg better than the Empty-10 while being faster, very comfortable and more powerful.

Thank's, I need to work on a better write up next time, not while half asleep should help and I might even invest in a decent compact camera. All of my pictures are from my LG G6.

It was a fantastic weekend despite a lack of sleep (room mate snored like nothing I have ever heard before) and a technical issue, I updated the Garmin and it freaked out not knowing where it was or how to find a route... Fixed now with another update.

Hang about.... I'm not Kwacky

Rossgo wrote:Absolutely smashing Kwacky. Shame about the rain but clearly had a lot of fun. Also great pics buddy

Stonesie sorry buddy. Thought it was Kwacky that wrote it all, now the good pics makes sense! Personally enjoyed the write up glad you had a great time shame about the snorer, next time stuff a sock in his mouth haha